Education Quotes

"The world may be divided into people that read, and people that do not."

"The soul of reading is in the mind of the reader."

"The education of the heart is as vital as that of the mind."

"The pursuit of knowledge is humanity's noblest quest."

"If you would keep your sons from the gallows, you must keep them from books."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"Get knowledge, not just information."

"My opinion is, that nothing is so necessary for a young woman as the knowledge of herself."

"I am convinced that women deserve the same education as men."

"The foundation of education is the cultivation of moral character."

"Education without moral instruction produces clever but dangerous citizens."

"Women are told from their infancy that beauty is a woman's scepter; the mind shapes itself to the body."

"The most perfect education is that which cultivates the judgment and the heart together."

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

"The only path of salvation was through education, which opens the eyes of the understanding."

"If women are to be made virtuous by authority which is a contradiction in terms, let them be immured in seraglios and denied education."

"The faculties which are cultivated in one sex are left uncultivated in the other, and the perfection of the whole is lost."

"Until women are led to exercise their understandings, they will remain the slaves of ignorance."

"Women are rendered so frivolous by the false system of education that they are often dreaming when they are awake."

"Taught from their infancy that beauty is a woman's form of power, women come to see themselves as objects to be looked at rather than as thinking beings."

"Women should be educated in such a way as to be the companion and equal of man."

"Women have been rendered so frivolous by false education that they cannot even read serious works."

"When women are once put in a state of ignorance, they are rendered weak and wretched."

"Women cannot have a mind if they are taught only to be beautiful objects."

"Women are often foolish because they have been taught that foolishness is ornamental."

"The most perfect education would not make a woman man-like, but would make her a true woman."

"The false system of education leaves women unprepared for the duties of life."

"In order to have virtue, women must be educated, and to be educated, they must be treated as rational beings."

"Women have been denied the education that would allow them to become independent thinkers."

"If women be educated for dependence, that is, to act as a man's upper servant, let her not complain of her oppressor."